Latest Breaking News
Showing Original Post only (View all)Petition to sell Montana to Canada is gaining support [View all]
Source: News5cleveland
Posted: 9:41 PM, Feb 19, 2019 Updated: 12 minutes ago
By: Justin Boggs
With the national debt continuing to grow, a group of citizens have created an online petition in hopes of selling Montana to Canada in hopes of reducing the United States' debt.
Nearly 10,000 people have signed a petition on Change.org in the last week that supports selling the Treasure State for $1 trillion to Canada. While $1 trillion is a hefty price tag, the overall United States deficit passed $22 trillion last week.
The US debt has grown on average by at least $ 1 trillion a year in recent years.
While Montana is the fourth-largest state in area, it is only 44th-most populated state in the United States with a total population of 1.06 million. Estimates of Montana's annual economic production are around $45 billion.
Read more: https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/national/petition-to-sell-montana-to-canada-is-gaining-support